{
    "code": "71271",
    "coding_system": "CPT",
    "canonical_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/71271/2024/A",
    "release_specific_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/71271/2024/D",
    "description": "A chest CT deliberately run at a reduced radiation dose, with no contrast, for the specific purpose of screening people at high risk for lung cancer before they have any symptoms. The lower dose is possible because the scan only has to find nodules against air-filled lung, not resolve fine soft-tissue detail. This is a screening test on healthy people, which is what sets it apart from the diagnostic chest CT ordered to investigate a symptom or a known finding.",
    "answer": {
        "question": "How much did Medicare pay for CPT 71271 in Q4 2024?",
        "text": "Medicare paid $140.81 for CPT 71271 in the office (non-facility) setting and $140.81 in a facility under the Q4 2024 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2024. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2024, when it decreased 2.7%."
    },
    "release": {
        "schedule": "pfs",
        "year": 2024,
        "quarter": "D",
        "label": "Q4 2024",
        "effective": "October 1 – December 31, 2024",
        "revision": 1
    },
    "status": {
        "code": "A",
        "non_facility_payable": true,
        "facility_payable": true
    },
    "national_rates_usd": {
        "office_non_facility": 140.81,
        "facility": 140.81,
        "sequestration_applied": false,
        "gpci": 1
    },
    "rvus": {
        "work": 1.08,
        "practice_expense_non_facility": 3.07,
        "practice_expense_facility": 3.07,
        "malpractice": 0.08
    },
    "formula": "(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor",
    "conversion_factor": 33.2875,
    "source": {
        "label": "Physician relative value file (Q4 2024)",
        "cms_url": "https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu24d.zip",
        "local_source_url": "https://localishealth.com/sources/physician-fee-schedule/2024/D",
        "file": "PPRRVU24_OCT.csv",
        "row": 13509,
        "sha256": "8ff8133723cdaa4d6d2b1680ff97286ffa7ab38dcd54b9108fc6020e633ef20b"
    },
    "modified_at": "2026-08-04T03:14:25+00:00"
}